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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 45
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Cyrus shall free the captives of Israel from Babylon—Come unto Jehovah (Christ) and be saved—To him every knee shall bow and every tongue shall swear.
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Thus</span> saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> to his <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Foreordination.">anointed</a>, to <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Governments.">Cyrus</a>, whose right hand I have <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/45/1c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR strengthened.">holden</a>, to <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/45/1d" mark="d" type="A" title="Isa. 41: 2; Dan. 5: 30.">subdue</a> nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the <sup>e</sup><a href="isa/45/1e" mark="e" type="D" title="OR double doors.">two</a> leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
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I will go before thee, and make the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 40: 4.">crooked</a> places straight: I will <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 107: 16.">break</a> in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
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And I will give thee the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/3a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR hidden treasures (probably of Babylonia); Jer. 50: 37; Ps. 51: 13.">treasures</a> of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, which call <i>thee </i>by thy <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 33: 12 (12, 17); JS-H 1: 33 (17, 33, 49).">name</a>, <i>am</i> the <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/45/3c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 29: 23; 3 Ne. 11: 14; D&C 36: 1; D&C 127: 3.">God</a> of Israel.
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For Jacob my <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 44: 1 (1-2), 21; 1 Ne. 20: 20.">servant</a>’s sake, and Israel mine <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Election.">elect</a>, I have even <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/45/4c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Governments.">called</a> thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 44: 8; Isa. 46: 9; 2 Ne. 6: 7; 3 Ne. 24: 6; Moses 1: 6.">I</a> <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and <i>there is</i> none else, <i>there is</i> no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
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That they may know from the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mal. 1: 11.">rising</a> of the sun, and from the west, that <i>there is</i> none beside me.  I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and <i>there is</i> none else.
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I form the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Light.">light</a>, and create darkness: I make peace, and create <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Amos 3: 6; Alma 5: 40; Moro. 7: 12.">evil</a>: I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> do all these <i>things.</i>
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Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">righteousness</a>: let the earth open, and let <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/8b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE the heavens and the earth.">them</a> bring forth <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/45/8c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Book of Mormon.">salvation</a>, and let righteousness spring up together; I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> have created it.
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Woe unto him that <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 9: 3 (1-4); Eccl. 6: 10; Jacob 4: 10.">striveth</a> with his <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hosea 8: 14.">Maker</a>!  <i>Let</i> the potsherd <i>strive</i> with the potsherds of the earth.  Shall the <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/45/9c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 29: 16; Isa. 64: 8; Jer. 18: 6; Rom. 9: 21.">clay</a> say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?  or thy work, He hath no hands?
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Woe unto him that saith unto <i>his</i> father, What begettest thou?  or to <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/10a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE his mother.">the</a> woman, What hast thou brought forth?
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Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sons and Daughters of God.">sons</a>, and concerning the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 29: 23.">work</a> of my hands <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/45/11c" mark="c" type="D" title="IE Parallel to ‘Ask me,’ this invites one to tell the LORD what one wants to know.">command</a> ye me.
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I have <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Creator.">made</a> the earth, and <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/12b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Man, Physical Creation of.">created</a> man upon it: I, <i>even</i> my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/45/12c" mark="c" type="A" title="Gen. 2: 1.">host</a> have I commanded.
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I have raised <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/13a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Cyrus.">him</a> up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 44: 28.">build</a> my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/45/13c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 52: 3.">price</a> nor reward, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts.
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Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, The labour of <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 43: 3.">Egypt</a>, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/14b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR behind.">after</a> thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, <i>saying,</i> Surely God <i>is</i> in thee; and <i>there is</i> <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/45/14c" mark="c" type="A" title="Moses 1: 6.">none</a> else, <i>there is</i> no God.
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Verily thou <i>art</i> a God that <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 38: 7 (7-8).">hidest</a> thyself, O God of Israel, the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/15b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Savior; TG Salvation.">Saviour</a>.
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They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together <i>that are</i> makers of <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">idols</a>.
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<i>But</i> Israel shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 35: 25; D&C 38: 33.">saved</a> in the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Jehovah."><span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span></a> with an everlasting <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/45/17c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Salvation, Plan of.">salvation</a>: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
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For thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> that <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Creator.">created</a> the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Earth, Purpose of.">inhabited</a>: I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and <i>there is</i> none else.
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I have not spoken in <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 48: 16; D&C 1: 34.">secret</a>, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> speak <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 119: 138; D&C 67: 9.">righteousness</a>, I declare things that are <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/45/19c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Ne. 25: 28 (28-29); D&C 3: 2.">right</a>.
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&#182; Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye <i>that are</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 46: 3.">escaped</a> of the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Conversion; TG Israel, Mission of.">nations</a>: they have no <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/45/20c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 44: 18 (18-19).">knowledge</a> that set up the wood of their graven image, and <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/45/20d" mark="d" type="A" title="Isa. 46: 7.">pray</a> unto a god <i>that</i> cannot save.
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Tell ye, and bring <i>them</i> near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time?  <i>who</i> hath told it from that time?  <i>have</i> not I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>?  and <i>there is</i> no God else beside me; a <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Justice of; TG Justice.">just</a> God and a <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/21b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Jehovah; TG Remission of Sins.">Saviour</a>; <i>there is</i> none beside me.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 6: 36; D&C 43: 34.">Look</a> unto me, and be ye <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Salvation, Plan of.">saved</a>, all the ends of the earth: for I <i>am</i> God, and <i>there is</i> none else.
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I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth <i>in</i> righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/23a" mark="a" type="C" title="Rom. 14: 11; Philip. 2: 10; TG Jesus Christ, Second Coming.">knee</a> shall bow, every tongue shall <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/45/23b" mark="b" type="E" title="OR take an oath, or covenant; Deut. 6: 13.">swear</a>.
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Surely, shall <i>one</i> say, in the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> have I righteousness and <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 17: 3; Alma 26: 12; D&C 113: 8 (7-8).">strength</a>: <i>even</i> to him shall <i>men</i> come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
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In the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall all the seed of Israel be <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/45/25a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Justification.">justified</a>, and shall glory.
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